This has got to be the best happy dance I’ve found in weeks! I laughed my head off – especially when she is chasing the dying of too cool-ness teen around the house. Hot Mama!
It is also Brighid’s Day to many of the Pagan persuation – and I hope you are having a lovely holiday. I usually do a mad house cleaning and invite the lady in – and bless the garden in the early morning light. I don’t know quite where our garden is slated to be at the moment, although I think we are supposed to have one this year. As far as the house – sigh. I’m working on it. It is much better than it was when we moved in. Too many people and animals in too little space. I did get a couple of those lingering major issues cleaned up today. This may just have to be a little at a time all week project.
Meanwhile, all my partners on the “get exposure for your blog” swap had sent me their blogs to peruse – so I went blog surfing. They are all great, but my favorites were Pagan Homemaking blog, and Suburban Composition. If you’ve got a few minutes to spend, drop by and visit them. All of the blogs were great, though. I’m a bit inefficent today and didn’t save a list of them to share – I should have.
I did get one more swap mailed out so that I am exactly one swap short of being all caught up. Unless something wild and wooly happens I believe I will get that one finished tonight to mail tomorrow. Then I’ll be down to a few private swaps, one of which is done just not packaged up to mail yet and back on a better footing altogether. I broke down and signed up for the writing prompt journal, just because I couldn’t resist. I bought the journal Friday and already have several pages done. Seems I just keep running into inspiring things. I especially liked this quote:
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible – Vladimir Nabokov
Isn’t that marvelous? Makes me want to leap onto the computer and reveal them. I was staring at some random thing on the TV late last night – and they interviewed an author who said she was 39 before she began writing, and the novel that she had just received the award for had been submitted over and over to publishers for THIRTEEN YEARS before it was finally accepted and put into print. Since then it has won several awards and all of her books are getting recognition. The main problem seems to have been that her books (like The River Way) don’t fit into any particular genre and so the publishers say they don’t know how they would promote them or where to sell them. Overall, the whole interview made me feel much better – and I can’t even recall the woman’s name or the name of the book *blush*.
I’ve decided that I will give myself a period of time to spend working away on blogs and Squidoo and promoting The River Way and all this Internet gobbledygook. I am going to choose a date that I think I can live with. From that day I will concentrate on nothing other than finishing “Silent” and polishing it up, then packaging it with “Cutting Away The Pain” for a publisher. This time we’ll start at the top and work our way down. While that’s going on, perhaps another period to work on Internet things again – then back to strictly writing. I think perhaps I will finish “Dominique” as it has generated a lot of interest among the people who have seen it and it would fit neatly into genre fiction. Still it has that very dark vibe continued on from Cutting and Silent. Yes, I’m going that direction for a reason – the Hunter/Predator series is ever percolating in the back of my mind. I think most of the characters and timelines will reveal themselves to me in bursts and once that background is down and all is ready, I suspect they will hold a gun to my head until I am done writing continuously first through last books. After which I will probably be admitted to a mental hospital if not charged with some serial murder or another – LOL.
Bet you think I forgot the daily drawings. HAH. No – but what I have been drawing of late is ATCs and I have this odd sort of rule that I do not post the ATC on the Internet in my Flickr account or here, until it has at least been mailed. Just some weird thing that I don’t want to reveal it to the world before the person it was created for has a chance to see it in person. That said – I will probably post some art tomorrow.
I have some Bella Sara cards that I am thinking of putting up on eBay. I have this nutty idea that I ought to make a few horse ATCs to go up at the same time. You know, in case someone goes to “see all auctions by foovay” and sees not just the Bella card she wanted but also a couple of neat horse ATCs she’d really like to have… Its just a thought. I’m in no big hurry to sell the cards so they could wait until I have some ATCs ready to go.
My hens are laying again! Yay chickie girls! I had two scrumpdillyishus egg sandwiches today with the first two eggs. Altogether they only took about a month off. I know that I could “force” them to keep laying right through the winter with a light in their coop, but I feel like animals deserve vacation time, just like we do – and are healthier for it.
Off to do more happy dancing for <a href=”http://foovaysfloozies.com”>Foovays Floozies</a> and the <a href=”http://demented-pixie.com”>Demented-Pixie blog</a>.
Summer Fey Foovay
